Re: FTP Downloads

From: Henrik Nordstrom <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 18:03:39 +0200

Markus Leutwyler wrote:

> I have attached two logfiles (cache.log .. taken with debug = all,9) that show the different
> behaviour between the small text file and the bigger binary file. The FTP server is
> replying to the SIZE command with "213 0" (0 bytes) and this is sent to the browser as
> Content-length. I just wonder why the text file works and the binary file not. Could
> someone look at the logfile and try to figure out what's going on exactly?

SIZE is only used on binary transfers, not text transfers.

Attached is a small workaround which causes Squid to ignore 0 replies to
SIZE.

/Henrik

Index: squid/src/ftp.c
diff -u squid/src/ftp.c:1.1.1.32.4.1 squid/src/ftp.c:1.1.1.32.4.2
--- squid/src/ftp.c:1.1.1.32.4.1 Wed Apr 21 15:03:39 1999
+++ squid/src/ftp.c Tue May 11 17:59:15 1999
@@ -1577,6 +1577,12 @@
     if (code == 213) {
         ftpUnhack(ftpState);
         ftpState->size = atoi(ftpState->ctrl.last_reply);
+ if (ftpState->size == 0) {
+ debug(9, 2) ("ftpReadSize: SIZE reported %s on %s\n",
+ ftpState->ctrl.last_reply,
+ ftpState->title_url);
+ ftpState->size = -1;
+ }
     } else if (code < 0) {
         ftpFail(ftpState);
     }
Received on Tue May 11 1999 - 11:30:20 MDT

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